Friday 28 October, from 5 to 8 pm – during the Psycho-juridical Interdisciplinary Training course entitled “Intensive course esoteric crimes and destructive cults, mental manipulation in cults: analysis of real cases”Held by the well-known criminologist of Calabrian origins, Sergio Caruso – the scholar and expert Antonia Depalma will speak.
The writer’s intervention will focus mainly on the studies conducted by her and by the sociologist, dr. Vincenzo de Lisio, which are contained in the clinical criminology essay “From the ancient altars to the cult of Satan” published by Stefano Donno’s I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni (IQdB).
The work, published in its first edition in February 2022 and included in the Universo del Mistero series edited by the writer and expert Mario Contino, embraces a multidisciplinary analysis of historical, legal, sociological and symbolic matrix, placing itself as an essay on esoteric and manual criminology. for criminological and criminodynamic investigation.
Appreciated both by “insiders” but also by connoisseurs and curious of the subject,
From the ancient altars to the cult of Satan he found many positive opinions: first of all is the positive feedback from the President of the Criminal Chamber of Larino, Roberto D’Aloisio who reviewed its release on the Journalists Order (ODG) Informa, highlighting how the complex phenomenology of sectarian cults, and in particular of that ascribable to Satanism, is extremely current and protagonist of increasingly recurring scenarios that enrich the panorama of the international crime news; the President and lecturer Roberto D’Aloisio highlighted, in his review, how the work of Depalma and De Lisio places in a position of natural development of intuitions in the past highlighted by lovers of empirical sciences, but now, arrived – thanks to the activity of in-depth analysis at a high level of maturation achieved through in-depth study with the rigorous and methodical scientific intent.
“The work explores the most ancient practices of remote religions based on atavistic and enigmatic human desires and does so by offering a broad reading perspective capable of understanding every nuance of the phenomenon”, continues the President Roberto D’Aloisio.
The work published by IQdB last February therefore aims to analyze the most archaic cults in order to arrive at an effective and exhaustive explanation about the diffusion of the phenomenon in the various forms that connote it and in the aspect concerning its relativism. geographical and temporal since, in recent years, archaeological studies have brought to light information that confirmed what was already stated by Spencer who, in the wake of Darwin’s evolutionary theories, argued that the “new” society originates from the ashes of “Old” companies.
The book turns the spotlight on an area of great charm but full of dark sides, while making an accurate distinction – with regard to Satanism – between the mere spirituality belonging to some groups of the national scenario and the practice of those cults that, instead, they act contrary to public order and morality, whose actions – not infrequently – result in juridically and criminologically relevant facts.
The symbology represents the beating heart of the manual, representing the most exquisitely fascinating element, as stated by the Lecce criminologist Mirco Turco who compared the work to a simildantesque journey in which an effective distinction is drawn between the religious sects and the pseudo-seven, analyzing – so – and various actions and shades of mental manipulation or “brainwashing”, so much narrated by the current crime news.
From the ancient altars to the cult of Satan, in his historical excursus, to which the first chapter is dedicated, he also analyzes the most important documents, preserved in the most prestigious archives, to trace the ancient analogy between witchcraft and Satanism.
Two super partes pens that also analyze the cold cases that have remained in the archives of international news since the seventeenth century.
A relevant space is also dedicated to music: starting from the birth and diffusion of the musical genre called “Metal”.
“From the ancient altars to the cult of Satan”, in the chapter “Lords of Chaos, correlation between music and Satanism: thesis and antithesis” focuses, in particular but not exclusively, on the Scandinavian phenomenon of the “Black Metal Inner Circle”, renamed from the journalistic jargon “Black Metal Mafia”, which enjoys a detailed and effective analysis that is carried out through the musical scenarios of the seventies and eighties of the last century, to arrive at the posthumous split of musical genres and bringing to light, under another vision and with the analysis of the concrete case renamed “The three of West Memphis”, the prejudice arising from the same correlation between Satanism and metal music showing how this changed the lives of three adolescents forever accused of the murder of three children; a verdict that issued in Arkansas, which has remained in the archives as the case manipulated by common prejudice.
From musical scenarios, we move on to Hollywood ones, with A. LaVey – founder of modern Satanism – behind the scenes of the film “Rosmary Baby, Red Ribbon in New York”. Roman Polanski’s film is analyzed as an emblem of the American society of the 50s and 60s that naively lives the dream of material ambition and brings to light a current situation that sees sects as protagonists and executioners, exercising strict control over the psyche of the adepts.
The analysis in question also embraces the facts contemporary with the shooting of the film that involved the woman who should have been the protagonist of the film, as well as wife of the director R. Polanski, Sharon Tate, behind whose murder, which took place on 9 August 1969, was hiding a of the most heinous killers in history: Charles Manson.
A complete manual that of Depalma and De Lisio that does not neglect visual and auditory communication, asking questions about pareidolia.
From the ancient altars to the cult of Satan, it is appreciated for its completeness useful for analyzing the currents that characterize the world of the initiatic and the occult which, in its complexity, has sometimes given rise to forms that can be defined as “sociologically deviant”.
These and many other topics related to esoteric criminology will be dealt with in the virtual classroom during the training course which aims to provide adequate preparation for the curious, the lovers of the subject and the professionals enrolled.
